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Protecting data in transit at AWS

Protecting data in transit at AWS - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Protecting data in transit at AWS

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- [Instructor] When it comes to protecting your data in transit to AWS, there's a number of choices depending if you're a developer or an end user. Depends on what service you're actually going to use in your design. AWS supports HTTPS endpoints for all regions, for all access to AWS, and they support HTTP endpoints using TLS if you're a developer and you're communicating using AWS APIs. So a much higher security level of developer endpoint access. If you're dealing with GovCloud regions, this would be a separate account. But perhaps you're having a design that involves GovCloud. Any FIPS connections use TLS 1.2, FIPs being the Federal Information Processing Standard. If you're using CloudFront, the content distribution network hosted by AWS, it supports encrypted endpoints for content using HTTPS and what's called field-level encryption. So your users uploading secure information to a web server hosted at AWS, that sensitive information provided by your user will be encrypted at the…

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